PhD in English and Film Studies - Textuality, Media and Print Studies in Waterloo Canada | Wilfrid Laurier University

Textuality represents a discursive approach that prioritizes text as contextual framework, exploring how cultural creation and engagement propagate, reinforce, or challenge ideologies. Both cinematic and literary works gain deeper significance when analyzed within their historical, cultural, and discursive contexts. In literature, this spans eras from Medieval and Early Modern to postmodern; in film, it covers early, classical, and modern productions. This discipline embraces the postmodern view that texts and films derive meaning through cyclical processes of creation, arrangement, reaction, analysis, and reevaluation. Academic exploration in this domain may incorporate diverse methodologies like aesthetic evaluation, translation studies, adaptation theory, intertextual connections, structural patterns, editorial practices, performance critique, manuscript dissemination, script circulation, textual reception studies, source examination, stylistic analysis, semantic interpretation, multimodal semiotics (linguistic, visual, auditory, gender-based), and discourse evaluation.